bronze is a lovely color

[fox]

Alas, Team Norway lost to Canada this afternoon in the semifinal (but, it must be said, they looked great doing it).  Back on the ice at 7pm for the all-new bronze medal match, in which they defeated China, which is probably as it should be.

Tomorrow, my boys Team Scotland face Canada again, and I don't know if they can count on lightning striking a second fourth, fifth, etc. time -- that is, having stolen three successive points Friday on bad luck and plain misses by Kevin Martin, it's probably not reasonable to expect Kevin Martin to miss another shot like ever again (he didn't against Norway; even when his second and vice just plain fluffed their shots in one end, Martin cleaned up and forced Ulsrud to blank when he had been looking at taking three or four, so I'm saying, the guy is back on).  So they will absolutely need to bust out their A-double-plus game, and even that may not be enough.

In short:  not that I'm going to say so to the Scots I'll be cheering with at the game tomorrow afternoon, but I'm getting next to the idea that silver is a very nice color, as well.  :-)

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[abka.livejournal.com]

We watched the bronze medal match during final fling last night at the club (a match which AD pointed out China lost as much as Norway won). Team Norway prompted a conversation about cute Scandinavians we've know (and we loved that one of their job descriptions is "manager, Smoothie Exchange").

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Yeah -- China didn't play badly, but that was a damn shame about his missed draw in the seventh. That's the fourth game I can think of offhand where a not-so-difficult draw has gone badly: USA vs. Scotland in the round robin, where Murdoch was up one with hammer in the tenth and had an open draw against two to just touch the four-foot ring, which got something under it and crunched up just short of cutting USA down to one and forcing an extra end; Norway vs. Australia in the round robin, where Australia had the hammer in the eleventh and an open draw against two to the four-foot ring, and the front end swept it just enough that it wasn't full four-foot anymore; Canada vs. Scotland in the 1-2 game, where they were tied after nine and Canada had a draw to the button with a little backing on the tee line, and skip put it out wide and heavy and it just nudged the outside of the Scots' shot rock instead of the inside, and rolled back instead of in; and this China vs. Norway in the bronze match, which I believe was a wide open draw against three that just never had enough weight on it. All the players have been failing to listen to me all week about not taking enough ice, but normally the weight hasn't been so much of a problem. :-/

It's a shame you couldn't see the 3-4 match. Team Norway's second, who may be the smoothie manager or may be a ski instructor or some other sort of young bum (he's the one with the red belt; happens to be the biggest guy on the team, but we now know him as "the little fella", after a conversation with our hostess [g]), was gettin' his groove on between ends, air guitar on the broom, the whole bit, and the crowd loved it -- but his teammates, not so much. They were laughing and then embarrassed and covering their faces and walking away, and we think skip finally gave him a talking-to, because he didn't act up any more after about the fifth end, and not at all in the bronze match. Alas.